BEER BLOKES

Seems like we have a bit of a tradition happening so come on, lads, hand over your loose foreign change to another bloke to buy a beer and raise a toast and send us your yarn and pic.

Ian McDougall's beer blokes

When I went overseas last year Shady Lane gave me a few quid to take. They were English pound coins that would no longer be legal currency after September.​I said I’d buy a beer and raise a toast to him, which I did at The Sherlock Holmes in Northumberland Street near Charing Cross railway station and Trafalgar Square which displays a large collection of memorabilia related to Holmes. Previously known as Northumberland Arms, it appeared in the 1892 Holmes story The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor.

A while back I gave some Euros to Wombat Crook.

He asked for a small beer and this is what he got so it was a tiny toast, indeed. The Euro doesn't go far in Amsterdam apparently.